Spell Check and Proofreading not working

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Spell Check and Proofreading not working

When typing, spell check doesn't underline words that are spelled incorrectiy. And proofreading doesn't underline grammaticaly incorrect things. I've typed words incorrectly to see if it would underline, and it doesn't. When i actually open the spell check window, it still doesn't say anything is wrong. This is a problem across my whole Mac, so it might be something with the OS. As im typing this when i spell "incorectly" it doesn't change it to "incorrectly". And help/suggestions?

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Mar 24, 2012 5:20 AM

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Answer 1

fruhulda

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Mar 24, 2012 9:33 AM in response to nbannon

Have you checked Check spelling as you type in the Edit menu > Spelling?

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nbannon Author

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Mar 25, 2012 4:58 AM in response to fruhulda

Yes i have it checked but i solved it myself... cause i used google docs and opened it in Pages, the code was different or whatever so spell check didn't work

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3083221?answerId=15286289022#15286289022

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May 22, 2012 5:31 PM in response to nbannon

I am not sure if you all are following this post anymore, but in case you are, here is a solution.

With the Inspector open:

Select All (the entire document)

Within Inspector click: TEXT > MORE

About 3/4 down the Inspector window should be "Language." Change the Language to English (or whatever you need). You may have to change everything to "None" first and then back to English. Somehtimes this Language feature can get changed accidentally if you copy and paste from another document, particually MS Word or GoogleDocs. It does not always happen, but sometimes it does. This should fix your problems.

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May 22, 2012 6:07 PM in response to Thisreallysucks

It wasn't a problem with "codes" you simply had text with no ascribed language. so Pages didn't know which dictionary to apply.

I passed over this post because you said it happened when you typed, no mention of text pasted from elsewhere.

Peter

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Answer 5

May 25, 2012 4:10 AM in response to Thisreallysucks

Good call. Your help solved my problem!

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Dec 7, 2012 7:47 PM in response to Thisreallysucks

Thanks for the post, I had the same problem and this answer REALLY helped!

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